Zune HD First Look
October 9th, 2009Just got my Zune HD from zuneoriginals.net in the mail. woop woop!
Here are some short videos that I made:
Unboxing:
Fixing my Zune’s broken glass (again) on the cheap!
May 23rd, 2009A while ago I dropped my Zune flat on its face and fixed it myself with some parts from RapidRepair.com. Unfortunately, it seems that Rapid Repair’s replacement “glass” wasn’t glass at all but rather some cheap plastic that broke while the Zune was in my pocket with my cell phone.
Zune Repair: Replacing a Flash Zune’s Glass
March 6th, 2009Over a year ago I bought a second generation Microsoft Zune. I bought the highest capacity available with flash-based storage (8GB), instead of the higher capacity hard drive-based options, because I’ve already broken two like players in my lifetime—a forth generation 40GB Apple iPod and a first generation Creative Zen Vision (no suffix).
This time the problem wasn’t the storage. Last week I broke my 8GB, second generation Microsoft Zune, but this time I could repair the thing myself!
Zune falls, Zune cracks. :-(
February 24th, 2009Today something tragic happened. I was walking down the hall, and as I took my Zune out of my pocket, I fumbled the device, and it fell flat on it’s face (screen) onto the hard floor. The poor thing’s front glass cracked, and now it’s sad. 
“MP3” Icon Sometimes Misleading in the Zune Marketplace
December 30th, 2008I have a Zune Pass, and I like to use my 10 free monthly song credits to “remove” the DRM from my favorite subscription (and therefore DRM’d) music by purchasing MP3 versions of the songs. I right-click on a song that I like, and then click “More about this album” to go to the album’s page on the Marketplace. If I saw the “MP3” icon next to the album cover art, I would buy my desired songs from that album. From there I select the songs that I want, right-click on them, and click “buy”. It was a quick process that I really didn’t think much of, until I just downloaded a DRM’d song from an album marked as MP3.
Here’s the deal: The MP3 icon doesn’t necessarily mean that ALL of the songs are available in MP3, but rather it means that at least one is. Take a look:
Here this album is clearly marked as “MP3”: 
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